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If you are looking at doing some housekeeping on your Application Catalog within SCCM for user requests then you will find that there is not a Microsoft supported why of doing this. This has been causing us problem recently having approved software for a user and then the users going onto different machines and installing … Read more
To go alongside our popular guide on how to fix bluetooth issues in Windows 8.1, we have now created a quick video guide to show you how you can make the changes required to make it work.
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A lot of people ask us about getting older versions of Java Clients. So we have now launched a Java client micro-site with all the previous versions that we have available and all upcoming versions. You can download the Offline Installers and MSI files from our Java website using the link below: Download Instructions When … Read more
If you want to export an Exchange mailbox to PST with some variables included, then this guide should help you out. In Exchange Management Shell, you can run the following command to export a mailbox to PST with variables like delete all mail from mailbox after export or maybe excluding Contacts or Calendar. The command … Read more
Have you ever wanted to use your iPad as a second monitor to your Mac or PC? Well, now “there is an app for that”!. We recently came across an app in the Apple App Store called “Duet Display” and didn’t really give it much thought as we have seen a lot of these in … Read more
If you are using Cisco switches, you may find that you need to configure IP helper addresses to give devices on different VLAN’s the correct direction to your DHCP server. To do this, you can use the following commands: # = the number of your VLAN To view the current vlan configuration: This will bring … Read more
If you are using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) then you will need to know how to capture a boot image.
In the video demo below, this shows you exactly how to carry out this task correctly.
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If you are using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and you need to add a boot image into the system, then you should view the below tutorial video demonstration on how to successfully carry this out.
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If you have a requirement to have Silverlight installed as a silent install, like for deployment through System Center Configuration Manager, then you can use the following guide to allow you to do this. First of all, you will need to download the full installer which you can get from the download link below: Download … Read more
You may run in to a situation where you need to completely factory reset a Shoretel phone handset. This can be due to a handset being unresponsive or not talking to its headquarter server or local MGC, amongst other reasons like selling your handset! To carry out a full factory reset you should take the … Read more
If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to bring up a command prompt and enter the following command: x:smsbini386TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:x:smsdata This will then restart the task sequence process for you … Read more
If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card driver for that model is not available either within Windows PE or the boot image you have used to PXE boot the machine. … Read more